Jakub Kolas Biography | Poet

Yakub Kolas (also Jakub Kolas, Belarusian : ´ ´, November 3  [ O.S. October 22]  1882 – August 13, 1956), real name Kanstancin Mickievic (´ ´ ´) was a Belarusian writer, People's Poet of the Byelorussian SSR (1926), and member (1928) and vice-president (from 1929) of the Belarusian Academy of Sciences .